Word: womanish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Alfred Deller, 67, self-trained English singer who revived the long-lost art of the countertenor, male singing in the alto range; of a heart attack; in Bologna, Italy. A burly, bearded figure whose womanish voice astounded unaccustomed audiences, the singer and his Deller Consort sextet won the enthusiastic bravos of listeners around the world for their live and recorded performances of medieval, Renaissance and baroque music...
Whiteness is destructive, repressive and womanish; blackness is vital and masculine: this is the overriding theme of Ray Aranha's My Sister, My Sister. The play develops this theme, an insidious cliche to begin with, at excessive, repetitive length, finally vitiating the considerable talents of the cast...
...nature dictate the beauty of crystals. Her life is reflected in the cold facets of her art. Early poems tell of her unhappy marriage to the Russian poet, Nikolai Gumilyov. A short poem dated 1911 ends: He couldn't stand bawling brats,/ raspberry jam with his tea,/ or womanish hysteria . . . And he was tied...